Fantasy Flight Games is keeping the Star Wars: Legion previews rolling today with a closer look at the 74-Z Speeder Bikes. Come take a look!
The release of Star Wars: Legion is right around the corner, and many of us can’t wait to get our hands on it. Fantasy Flight Games has been giving us plenty of previews to hold us over, and today we’re getting a closer look at the 74-Z Speeder Bikes. Let’s take a look at what they had to say.
Within the 74-Z Speeder Bikes Unit Expansion, you’ll find two unpainted, easily assembled 74-Z Speeder Bike miniatures, ready to add another unit to your army. One of the miniature sculpts is identical to the 74-Z Speeder Bike miniature included in the Core Set, while the other offers a variant design to add new diversity to the miniatures in your army. Like seven other expansions and the Star Wars: Legion Core Set, the 74-Z Speeder Bikes Unit Expansion will release on March 22nd, granting a depth to your army building from the very first day.
Strafing Attack
Within the Imperial units initially releasing for Star Wars: Legion, you can already see the distinct roles played by each unit in your army. Darth Vader forms a rallying point for the entire army, inspiring your forces with an invincible resolve and cutting down the enemy with ease. AT-STs are powerful walkers, pumping out a devastating volume of firepower and pounding enemy forces into a pulp as you advance. Stormtroopers take their place as the rank and file troopers of your army, filling out your forces and keeping your larger, more powerful centerpiece units from being surrounded. Finally, you find the 74-Z Speeder Bikes, speedy support units that are perfectly suited for strafing enemy troops and flying from one end of the battlefield to another in a flash.
The 74-Z Speeder Bikes Unit Expansion invites you to add another unit of 74-Z Speeder Bikes to your Imperial armies. These units take their place alongside T-47 Airspeeders as the fastest units in the game. They use the longest movement tool, and because of the Speeder 1 ability, they must perform a compulsory move forward at the beginning of their activation! When you combine the compulsory move with the ability to spend one or both of their actions moving, it’s plain that 74-Z Speeder Bikes are almost unmatched in terms of speed.
If there’s any aspect that the 74-Z Speeder Bikes lack, its customizability. This unit only has a single upgrade slot, devoted to comms upgrades. Still, there are options for you to provide your 74-Z Speeder Bikes with the perfect comms upgrade. If you’re having your unit ranging far afield, you may be worried about issuing orders when your speeder bikes are out of range of your commander. Simply equipping a Long-Range Comlink (also present in the Star Wars: Legion Core Set) means that the upgraded unit can always be issued orders, no matter how far it flies.
Alternatively, you may use your 74-Z Speeder Bikes to disrupt your opponent’s plans with a Comms Jammer. This upgrade card reads, “Enemy units at range 1 cannot be issued orders, unless they are issuing an order to themselves.” By flying your speeder bikes through enemy lines, you can disrupt your opponent’s plans, keeping him from giving a crucial order that leaves a unit vulnerable and without direction in the midst of a raging battle!
All in all, the new preview is showing us how these new Speeder Bikes excel offensively, but they do lack in the upgrade area of the game. The compulsory move is definitely going to help you get into range faster, use your first action to attack, and the second action to move again and get the heck out of dodge. As far as Comms Jammer goes, 15 points seems a little expensive just to prevent enemy units at range 1 from being issued orders because they can still issue orders to themselves. Just spend 10 points for Long-Range Comlink which allows you to be issued orders from your nominated commander no matter where you are on the tabletop.
For Imperial players, this expansion is almost seeming like a must-have unit for your army. Make sure you head on over to Fantasy Flight Games and pre-order yours today! For a full review and unboxing of the 74-Z Speeder Bikes check out our video below read our article here
74-Z Speeder Bikes Unit Expansion $24.95
The howl of a 74-Z Speeder Bike racing past is not something that’s easily forgotten. The Empire commonly uses these speeder bikes for scouting and reconnaissance missions, but they can also be deployed to terrifying effect on the battlefield, where their sheer speed often prevents the enemy from taking a clean shot.
The 74-Z Speeder Bikes Unit Expansion includes a unit of two 74-Z Speeder Bikes, and all the unit cards and upgrade cards you need to expand your forces with these lightning-fast speeders.
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